Articles
Grassroots Climate Action in Uttarakhand: Partnerships, Participation, and Progress
27 Jun 2025
Agriculture is the backbone of the hill economy in Uttarakhand. However, most of the farming in the state is rain-fed, with irrigation facilities primarily restricted to the plains and valleys.
Climate Anxiety in Youth: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions
11 Jun 2025 | Snigdha Majumder
A recent survey reveals that 94% of Indian youth are grappling with eco-anxiety amid the climate crisis.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) for Rural Livelihoods
14 Feb 2025 | T S Veeramani
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can create sustainable rural employment by leveraging ecosystem restoration, agroforestry, and sustainable farming. With potential to generate 20 million jobs by 2030, NbS offers long-term livelihood opportunities for India's rural workforce.
Mycorrhiza and Bacteria-Enriched Microbiomes
19 Sep 2024
Mycorrhizae are beneficial soil fungi that establish a symbiotic association with host plant roots. In nature, they also associate with bacteria during different stages of their life cycle. Cross-kingdom associations formed between plant roots and mycorrhizae have been proficient in positively influencing plant growth as these associations are evolutionarily selected and maintained in nature, and are hence more powerful than introduced, non-native, combinations of biofertilizer bacterial strains.
Impact of Nature-based Innovative Biofertilizers on Agriculture
10 Apr 2024
Global climate changes have resulted in unexpected drought, extreme temperatures, excessive rainfall, and unanticipated storms, causing disasters that had never occurred in the past. Considering this, establishment of an environment friendly mechanism is of vital importance. In recent years, there has been an unrestricted and unchecked use of agrochemicals to obtain higher yield which on the flip side has given rise to several agricultural problems and damaged soils.
TERI team has developed nanofertilizers for climate smart agriculture
13 Dec 2023 | Dr Pushplata Singh| | Dr Palash Manna
Nanofertilizers developed by TERI's Sustainable Agriculture Program for achieving climate-smart agriculture are approved by the Department of Agriculture for manufacturing and marketing
12 Dec 2023
Nanofertilizers have promised to overcome the adverse effect of excessive conventional fertilizers on environment and health. Our extensive studies have shown that the use of nanofertilizers, in combination with ‘bulk’ fertilizer(s), can reduce the application size of conventional fertilizers by 25-50 % in agricultural fields. TERI has developed three nano-fertilizer technologies up to commercial scale. These include nano Urea, nano DAP and nano Phosphorous.
Nano steps towards Climate Smart Agriculture
31 May 2023 | Palak Khanna
Its deceptively small size is no measure of its impact. Nanotechnology may work at a small scale, but the minuscule size of nanomaterials belies their efficiency. Little wonder then that the technology is being increasingly applied in agriculture to enhance efficacy and, importantly, to shrink the adverse impact of conventional chemical fertilizers on the environment and health.
A comparative assessment of biomass pretreatment methods for the sustainable industrial upscaling of rice straw into cellulose
18 Apr 2023 | Prabhpreet Kaur| | Himadri B. Bohidar| | Frederick M. Pfeffer| | Richard Williams| | Ruchi Agrawal
Source- Cellulose
Publisher- Springer Nature
Year- 18 March 2023
Weblink- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10570-023-05161-4
This paper gives a comprehensive characteristic comparison of cellulose-rich variants obtained from the rice straw using different pretreatment methods along with the preliminary cost analyses indicating their potential economic feasibility.